On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 01:59 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > Be nice to see a user of this infrastructure, given it's fairly > > significant. Didn't someone mention PPC using something like this? > > Could we turn this into a "move infrastructure into arch-indep" > patch? > > > > The main reason to post it now is to see if it makes anyone's > toolchain explode. Eric was vaguely worried that older linkers might > not do the PHDR magic properly. If linkers start exploding all over > the place, I'll have to rethink this, so its better that not too much > depend on it at first. > > I'm not really sure what the PPC usage of notes actually is; the code > Hollis pointed to was some program to insert ELF notes into an > existing kernel image. I don't know why they're doing that, or if > being able to generate the notes into the image directly is a useful > thing to do. I hope it is, and they can make use of this patch. The firmware on certain PowerPC systems (specifically IBM's) requires the NOTE segment. The firmware on other systems (specifically Apple's) breaks if it's present. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center
